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Who was eligible to run the Boston Marathon?

By Digital First Media

Posted:
04/16/2013 11:59:26 AM PDT

Updated:
04/16/2013 12:01:00 PM PDT

Who was eligible to run in the Boston Marathon?

A breakdown of qualifying standards for the 2013 Boston Marathon. The same standards will be used for the 2014 Boston Marathon. Qualifying times for the 2013 marathon had to be run after Sept. 23, 2011.Prospective entrants for he 2013 Boston Marathon had three different means of qualifying for eligibility: running a qualifying time, running for a charity, or running as a non-qualifier. (Boston.com defined non-qualifiers as those who received invitations from organizers, sponsors, vendors, licensees, consultants, municipal officials or marketers.)According ...